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Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour's most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories. At the end of each day, month, and year, 10x10 looks back through its archives to conclude the top 100 words for the given time period. In this way, a constantly evolving record of our world is formed, based on prominent world events, without any human input. Sources. Currently, 10x10 gathers its data from the following news sources: * ABC * BBC * CNN * The Guardian * MSNBC * Reuters Photography. All photographs within 10x10 come from the aforementioned news sources, and full copyright ownership is maintained by those sources. 10x10 uses the images purely for artistic and educational purposes, and does not profit in any way from their use.

The Emerging List of Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 from the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies

The Emerging List of Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 from the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies

Jane Hart's 5th annual survey of learning tools that we have built based on the contributions of learning professionals worldwide. The 2011 list will be finalised on 13 November 2011.

Project Wonderland is a 100% Java and open source toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds. Within those worlds, users can communicate with high-fidelity, immersive audio, share live desktop applications and documents and conduct real business. Wonderland is completely extensible; developers and graphic artists can extend its functionality to create entire new worlds and new features in existing worlds.

"Social media may have started out as a fun way to connect with friends, but it has evolved to become a powerful tool for education and business. Sites such as Facebook and Twitter and tools such as Skype are connecting students to learning opportunities in new and exciting ways. Whether you teach an elementary class, a traditional college class, or at an online university, you will find inspirational ways to incorporate social media in your classroom with this list."

Real Easy 100's of thoughtful features to make creately diagramming quick and natural, its a joy to use. Beautiful Diagrams One click styling, pretty shapes, curvy connectors and more helps you create beautiful diagrams. Team Collaboration Powerful project collaboration, inline commenting, one click publishing and team management. Smart Diagramming Smart diagrams and objects suggests connectors, draws as you type and adds data to your diagrams.